The show first aired on CBS, Dec. 6, 1943 - Feb. 29, 1944. It then jumped to ABC, Sep. 9, 1945 - Jun. 5, 1949. The final run came with NBC, Sep. 11, 1949 - Jun. 7, 1954.

Many of those appearing on the show were Ann Blyth, Robert Cummings, Betty Field, Henry Daniell, James Cagney, Bert Lahr, Ann Sothern, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Robert Donat, Tyrone Power, David Niven, Peter Lawford, Richard Basehart, Jane Wyman, Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Franchot Tone, Danny Kaye, Richard Todd, Mickey Rooney, Peggy Ann Garner, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Geraldine Fitzgerald, Betty Hutton, Jack Carson, Ronald Reagan, Sterling Holloway, Ginger Rogers, Paul Douglas, Dennis Morgan, Willilam Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Herbert Marshall, Judy Garland, Angela Lansbury, Fredric March, Hugh Williams, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Swanson, Boris Karloff, Richard Burton, Jeanne Crain, Anne Baxter, Gary Cooper, Lee Tracy, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Richard Greene, Barry Sullivan, Thelma Ritter, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Cornell, Montgomery Clift, Dan Dailey, Claudette Colbert, Gregory Ratoff, Jane Powell, Brenda Marshall, William Holden, Loretta Young, Jeanne Crain, John Ireland, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwyck, Vanessa Brown, Eddie Bracken, Gertrude Berg, Sylvia Sidney, Joseph Buloff, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria DeHaven, Wendell Corey, Maurice Evans, Burgess Meredith, Martha Scott, Walter Huston, Arlene Francis, Leo Carroll, Burl Ives, Paulette Goddard, Richard Widmark, Boris Karloff, Joan Fontaine, Florence Eldridge, Stuart Erwin, Shirley Booth, Sam Levene, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Hussey, Zachary Scott, Ed Begley, Pat O'Brien, Ray Milland, Walter Pidgeon, Juano Hernandez, Helen Hayes, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Garfield, Gene Kelly, Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy McGuire, Rex Harrison, Basil Rathbone, Jane Wyatt, Lillian Gish, Fred Allen, James Mason, Dana Andrews, Judith Anderson, Marsha Hunt, Claire Trevor, Raymond Massey, Dane Clark, Mary Anderson, Clifton Webb, Peggy Wood, Gene Tierney, Fay Bainter, Ingrid Bergman, John Geilgud, George Sanders, Fred Astaire, Wendy Barrie, Maurice Evans, Paul Henreid, Pamela Brown, Ilka Chase, Dorothy Gish, Mary MacArthur, James Stewart, Leon Janney, Elizabeth Taylor, Dickie Van Patten, Barbara Weeks, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, Katherine Hepburn, Paul Lukas, Alfred Drake, Arlene Francis, Betty Garde, Margaret Sullivan, Joan Caulfield, Eddie Albert, Arlene Francis, Maurie Evans, Florence Reed, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, June Holliday, Paul Douglas, Kim Hunter, Marlene Dietrich, Deborah Kerr, John Conte, Michael Redgrave, Ingrid Bergman, Ethel Merman, Dean Jagger, Irene Dunne, Mary Martin, Burt Lancaster, Celeste Holm, Otto Kruger, Karl Malden, Claude Rains, Valerie White, Macdonald Carey, Monty Woolley, Jean Arthur, Romain Rolland, Robert Morley, Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Kirk Douglas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Van Heflin, and Boris Karloff.